Do you politely tell them this is a bad time or do you hang up?
I registered on the "Do Not Call Registry". Before that I would politely interrupt them and say "Thank you for the offer but I am not interested. Please remove my number from your call list." The telemarketer would usually say something along the lines of "I will remove your number immediately. Thank you for your time and have a nice day."
I use to be rude to telemarketers when I was younger, a few years ago when I was a teenager, but I now know there is no reason to be rude to them or try to insult them. Telemarketers are just doing their job. Telemarketers have no control over who they call, the company they are working for does not care whether they want to call your or not, the bottom line is they have to call you if you pop up as the next call in there computer system. However, if you ask to be removed it is the law that they do so.
At the beginning of this year, I lost my job working for a corporation I devoted myself to for five years. I was devastated, insulted, depressed and worst of all angry. Because of my situation, I had to immediately find another job, and went on an intense job hunt. This search for employment that lasted from January till June... SIX MONTHS! Then I was finally offered a job working for a marketing company. My job title was a Marketing Communications Specialist which is just a fancy name for a telemarketer. We did not call residential numbers, only businesses. We also did not cold call, we called corporations who had affiliation with the services we were calling them about. However, it did not matter, sometimes (at least once a day) I would get some as*hole on the phone who did their best to insult me. I never let it bother me because they always made an a*S of themselves but I also did not see what made them so angry... I thought to myself, "I would hate to see this person if they had a REAL problem."
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My point is that there is no reason to be rude to telemarketers. You never know what lies in your future and you could be on the other end of that phone call one day.
I hope my story adds some thought to your question.
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I voted for Miss 6, but I just have to mention that one of my highest moments was the time I put one telemarketer on hold [planning to just leave him there forever], picked up another call on a second line that turned out to be yet another telemarketer and said 'Oh Yes! Thank you for calling! Let me put you through to the person who handles that!' and teleconferenced the second telemarketer to the first. yessssssss
Sign up on the government do not call registry. Then if the telemarketers still call tell them that you have registered on such a list and that they are legally not allowed to call you. And if they still do file a complaint.
Caller ID is the simplest. If I make a mistake and they ask for me, I say, "He's not home, can I take a message?"
~~I tell them I am registered on the "do not call registry" and ask them why they are calling me, since it is a violation. They usually hang up on me.~~
I tell them they have called me at home, and would they return the favor by giving me their home phone number so I can call them back at my leisure.
They, of course, decline.
At which point I politely point out that if they are not willing to talk to me on their personal home phone line, then they cannot expect me to talk to them on mine.
In most cases, you should just politely tell them you are not interested and hang up before they can begin.
If you do keep going on with them and they become rude or inappropriate, then you can hang up.
I don't. Never did. When we had a land line, I looked at the caller ID. If a name I did not recognize popped up, I didn't answer.
Since we've have the land line disconnected, I just use my cell phone. If the call comes up without a name, I don't answer. Why? Because the only people to call my cell phone are the ones I gave my number to, and I entered their number in my cell.
If a friend is calling from another number (which is NEVER because they all have cell phones) then they can leave a message.
As soon as I know it's a telemarketer, I interupt their spiel and politely tell them, "I'm sorry, I'm not interested. Please put me on your Do Not Call List."
I wait for them to respond, and then I ask, "Have you made a note to add me to your Do Not Call list?"
When they affirm yes, I say thank you and hang up. And I note the date and time of the call, and who the entity calling was.
Once you tell them to put you on their Do Not Call list, they legally cannot call you again.
I tell them that i'm deaf.
I always know it's a telemarketer because they call me by my first name, and I go by two names.
For example, they say, "Hello Sally," but all my friends and family call me Sally Mae, so I know they don't know me and I didn't ask them to call.
I say, "I'm not interested," and I hang up before they finish their first sentence.
As soon as I can see that they are a telemarketer, I interrupt them and say, "I appreciate that you have a job to do, but I don't transact business over the telephone. Please take me off your call list. I'm very busy at the moment and need to hang up now. Have a nice evening."
And then I hang up.
I am sometimes very nice, but if they catch me in the middle of cooking dinner or cleaning, I can be very short and borderline rude. I will also click off on the phone if I know from the caller id that it is a sales call.
Well personally, I just burp into the phone until they hang up. Usually works.
At first my parents would politely tell them that it was a bad time. Then they KEPT calling. Like constantly. So usually now we either hang up, or just ignore the call.
I disconnect the phone from the wall when I don't want to be disturbed.
I say to them,No thank you, have a nice day! CLICK.
I ask them to remove my number from the list. If they don't then I call back and speak to a supervisor. I really don't have that problem because I listed my number on the Do Not Call list - you should too if you don't want anymore unwanted phone calls.
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How do you deal with telemarketers?